Tack-fastened button.



F. E. STANLEY.

TACK FAsTENEn BUTTON.

APPUCATIN F|LED APR.28, 1913- 1,142,376. Patented June 8, 1915.

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W/TNESSES THE NURRIS PETERS ca. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D, C.

FREDERICK EASTANLEY, OF WATERBUB/Y, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVIIJL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

TACK-Fnsrnnnn BUTTON.

Application mea April as, 1913. serial No. 764,223.

To all whom t may concern Bei-t known that'I, FREDnRrokFJ; STAN- LEY, aV citizen of the United States, residing at .VVaterbury, in the county of New Haven Yand State of Connecticut, haver invented a certain new and useful Improvement in `Tack-Fastened Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

y. take uP `orQomDensate `for eXtra depth inthe Buttons Vdesignedto be secured to a garment by means of tacks forced through the garment from'one side thereof into the buttons on the other side, with such pressure as to upset the pointspof the tacks lwithin the buttons and thus iirmlyattach them to the garment, are well-known; Vand i-t isV equally well-knownl that such buttons have contained within them some sort ofianvil for yreceiving the thrust ofthe tackgand upsetting its end, and anchoringl it* therein.

Sometimes Va lfiller piece has been added to V.to a garment, this unbroken whole-walled interior of Ythe button. Alsor these interior elements have served as reinforces, andy as .means to fill up the space in the button along the length ofthe tack.VY But I am unaware of any instance prior to my invention herein disclosed, where a single structure has served all of these purposes, and in addition has been of such chararcterasto resist lateraly strains in setting or attaching y'the buttons and in use. Where the anvil or filler is loose within a metal button, the Aresulting rattling is objectionable. Unless'th'e` interior construction affords a supportfor the face or cap of the button, such face or cap vis aptto 'spring when the button is set, thus giving the loose piece greater room 'for'undesirable and noisy movement.,vv Y Obviously,

the button face orv cap .cannot beadequately protected from disgurement 'under such circumstances. When ther-face 'orgcap vis rornamented or, as is equally common, has

the kusers name'or trademark embossed in it, there'is still more urgent :need of. a stable interior construction. Y If lthe -interior con ,-jections are met and overcome, and Iam enabled to produce VaA buttonfof i' relatively less weight, having yfewer parts to handle in assembling, andcostingless to makeV and 4sell, and also to use thinner and less eX- pensive stock for the cap or face.

The invention consists in a combined anvil and iller, fortackfastened buttons, made of 1 a single piece draw-n to shape, and having a characteristic of the -chamber formed in and by the tapering extension serving to resist the strains incident to setting the button and to vprevent theV deformation or spreading of .the device in use, as I will proceed now'to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the' several figures of which like 7parts are similarly designated, Figurel is a plan view,.and Fig. 2 is an 'edge view of a discous blank from which the device of the invention may be produced by a succession o f operations. Fig. 3 1s a longitudinal sectionof kthe' cupped blank. Fig Lis a longitudinal section of the cupped blank with the head and shank in embryo.

device of this invention. Fig. 9 is a longitudinal section showing a button like that of Fig. 8 set-or tacked upon a piece o f cloth, j and illustrating the relationv of the-upset or- .clenched tack to the button andits parts. l

)The interior piece of this invention is prov duced by a succession of drawingY and, pressing operations, lfrom a discous blank 1, Figs. 1 and '2'. This blank is first vdravvn into cup or shell form, as shown at 2 in Fig. 3,l and this cup is next treated so asl to form an embryotic head 3 and shank 1, Fig. K4., vNext the blank is subjected to the action of suitable dies by Which the head is flattened out transversely, asl at 5, and the shank drawn up close against the head, as shown in Fig. .5, vv'and Y then 'the' Yincipient head is f straightened out as at 6, Figs. 6 ,and 7 and the shank iclose'din so asdtoprovide the -tackir' point receiving cavity'r? oit'rusto-conical section Vand the relatively short tackfpoin't guiding and staying tubular portion 8 of Ysubstantially cylindrical section. This de- A as brass, and adapted toreceive any suitable V ec ' button and in use. c

design, advertisement,trademark, o-r otherV marks, the back and-face being united `by closing the latter upon the former. `Within the chamber formedr by the back and face is` arranged the combined anvil and `illerl of thisinvention, so that itsheadis located between the .back and ace and in contact With Vhubto receive and guide-the tack point and hold it'and the button Ain alinementk and take "the .lateral strains imposed in setting the A AS 'shown in rig. 9, ni button is' attached to a garment, represented at 12, by locating it on one side and then driving the vtack13 'from the opposite: side, through the garment and into the button. The hub of the button 1 I has the tack-hole 14, through which theptack point enters and thence Vpasses Vinto'-the vshank of the device, up, into the tack receiving Vcavity 7 Where it meets the flattened head, and is upset or clenched, as indicated at 15, and so deformedjas to Vfillthe cavity I sutliciently to iixedly unite the button and v I i ".v

tack. L

-. Since the Wall of the-shank of device l is Whole, or solid or unbroken, it lis apparent f thatpall strains'on the tack or button fin any fdirection Will besuccessfully and effectively i' filler Vmay bev altered to suit buttons of vamet byxsaid shank, and all 'danger ofY theY shank disrupting or spreading is avoided.

The contour of the' combined anvil' and .rious shapes, so long as it embodies the tack- Aing thel clenching' cavity clenchingand face or cap-supporting head-f and the shank -integral'therewith' and formand jtacl ,Pointy guideand support. Y

Itis to be noted thatnot only is the'rcoiny bined anvil and iiller4 of the present invention distinguished voverr'the prior art by its being drawn to shape, but it is further distinguished by being supported Wholly. Withinthe button-head its own laterally extended head resting upon the back, as already stated, and its tubular Vmouth. terminating Within the hub, Vso thatji't does not come into fcont'act With the article Yto! Which the button is attachedV and V,conse'quently ,isn relieved of setting pressure lthatagmight tend 'to spread or rdeform it'.V Furthenthis combined anvil l rand ller is noivisedependentupon the hub and not the "combined filler-and vanvil g'hubeither VforV its supportorits connectiony i i with the button. I n-vmyr construction the vi'zces'the relation rof the vbutton tothe gar-Y mentA andthe combined -filler and anvil perporting the button face regardlessof its 'revvhich the button isappliedv..` f v s What I claim is: both, so as to aiford an adequate support 'for .the face andto prevent rattling and springv vfing, and its, shank extending ldovvn into the 1.1' A` lcombined anvil and n ller for a tackastened button, for clenching andA anchorforms its designatedfunctions oi"'ieceivllfa 4 clenching'and anchorin'gthetack and SUP- V907 f lation "toV the garmentv orV other-artid@ jt'f ing the tack used to securethe button to an y `article, same Vconsisting ofc'a unitary struC- fture dravvnto shape and having a `flat head vportion and aFWhole-Walled taperinghollow extension beyond which the-flathead portion extends laterally -all around, the taperinterior of; the hollovvT extension` tobe cylindrical end portion vresistingjthe longia. A aci;-faa'eagdi button, having a ack] clenching and 'anchoring memberpforA semade of a single piece'cup drawn togshap'e portion. having-1a substantially tubular Y A Y unbroken cylindrical end portionf through l which thetack point is1 introduced into the. c

clenchedthereim the 'flat -headonly of the hollcW extension receiving the impactof the Y tackiny the act YYoi-setting and the unbroken i curing 'the'button toan article, said member i and including anat yheadfportion Vand aJ f v'vhole-Walledv taperingfhollovv` extension beyond which the iiiat head/portion extends "laterally all around, the tapering portionv `g l having a substantially tubular unbroken cylindrical end'portion through` which the tack f point is introduced intov the interior of'ftlie hollow extension and therein clenched, com-f Y'-binedfvvithya hubbed backl anda face closed vi'dovvnoverfthe back, the-said tack clenchingY "'andianchoring-"member located betweenA the Y back and face and resting upon the hack and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set opposed bylthe fac, its hollow xxtension enmy hand this 26 day of April A. D. 1913. tering the ub an its termina portion inclosed by said hub and out of Contact With FREDERICK E' STANLEY the article to which the button is applied, Witnesses:

and also out of supporting Contact with the PERGY WARNER, hub. E. A. HYDE.

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